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A couple months ago, Amazon execs were reported to be conspiring to smear a black labor organizer with racist dog whistles.

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/5dm8bx/leaked-amazon-memo...

Treating their motives with anything but the utmost cynicism seems the rational move here.



Bottomless cynicism gets us nowhere. It's far from done, but unless there's some evidence that they are still selling Rekognition to the police, this is a positive development in the field of facial recognition.




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